Firefighter hurt at Young Street blaze
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A firefighter received a minor injury while working to contain a blaze in a three-storey walk-up apartment on Young Street.
Black streaks stretched from third-storey windows to the roof of the building at 269 Young St., where emergency crews remained on scene Thursday afternoon.
“First it was smoke, and then the flames just started gushing out,” tenant James Hyde said about the blaze. “You could see it spread,”
Morgan Modjeski / Free Press
Emergency crews remained on the scene of a blaze in a three-storey walk-up apartment building at 269 Young St., Thursday afternoon.
In a news release, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said the firefighter was assessed by a paramedic and didn’t require a trip to the hospital.
The blaze began just before 9:30 a.m.
Fire crews arrived quickly and started an offensive attack. Residents had already left the building.
The blaze was under control two hours later. Members of the WFPS fire investigation branch were busy at work. No damage estimate was available.
Hyde, who has lived in the building for 21 years, said he wasn’t sure when tenants would be let back in. The City of Winnipeg’s emergency social services team was dispatched to help residents displaced.
A building manager said he was unable to comment.
Hyde said the fire has spurred him to invest in tenant insurance, which he said he hasn’t had “in decades.”
“It’s been so long I had to Google what kind of rates you’re having to pay now,” he said.
— Free Press staff